Outrage after DeSantis says he’d ‘start slitting throats’ if elected president

National Treasury Employees Union president calls Republican's remark on federal jobs repulsive and unworthy' of campaign trail

Rightwing Florida governor and 2024 presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis was widely condemned after he said that if elected to the White House, he would start slitting throats" in the federal bureaucracy on his first day in power.

The president of the National Treasury Employees Union, Tony Reardon, called the hardline Republican's comment repulsive and unworthy of the presidential campaign trail".